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upon EZEKIEL. 377
pie, which was fix Cubits thick, vcr. 5. but of Chapter
the outward Wall that enclofcd thefe fide Cham- XLI.
bers. Side Chamber in the fingular Number is u/'-V""^
ufed for the Plural, as in ver. 5. and Chap. xlii. 1.
So 'Door is ufed for Doors, vcr. xvi. 20. Toft
for Tofts, ver. 21. Chamber, Chap. xlii. 1. for
Chambers, ver. 4.
Ibid. And that which was left, [or the void
Space] was the place of the fide Chambers that
were within] or, that belonged to the Honfe, or
Temple. This void Space was of the fame Mea^fure,
viz. Five Cubits, comp. ver. 1 1. So theSenfe
Is fupplied by Villalpandus and Noldius, N. 889.
comp. Chap. xl. 14. The fpace of Five Cubits
was allowed for the lower Chambers, tho' the
upper Stories were wider, by Reafon oftheRer
batement of the Wall : See ver. 7. and 1 Kings
vi. 6. Others underftand this fpace of five Cubits
to be allowed for a Walk before the Chambers,
or a PalTage from one Chamber to ano*
ther, fee ver. 1 1
Ver. 10. And between the Chambers was they er. 10,-
widenefs of twenty Cubits round about the
Houfe.~] The Chambers called Lefljacoth in
the Hebrew, are to be diftinguifhed from the
fide Chambers mentioned in the foregoing Ver-
fes; they mean probably the Chambers of the
inner Court defcribed Chap. xl. 44, 45. Between
thefe and the Temple was left a Space of 20 Cubits.
The Temple flood in an Area of an hundred Cubits
fquare, ver. 14. and was feventy Cubits wide,
ver. 12. to which adding the five Cubits on either
Side mentioned vcr. 9. and the twenty Cu-
Ccc bits